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You all should try using Citrix. It turns ALL of your favorite applications into focus stealing bastards. Microsoft Dynamics steals my focus a good 5 times while it is launching.
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2008 19:42 |
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Factor Mystic posted:Assuming you're running Vista, folder template auto detection can be easily disabled Thanks as well. Those folder views would be awesome if they were customizable (column sizes, visible columns etc) and Vista actually remembered your settings.
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| # ¿ May 2, 2008 16:28 |
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Ryokurin posted:Horrible job search website That sounds alot like a WINS setup. We had that for class signup in college. You could not press back, you had to let it sit for 60 seconds to 'load' the previous page again. If you were entering info, lets say searching for a class, you had to confirm each entry. Each unconfirmed entry would disappear. So if you filled out all of the fields, each one would get removed that had not been confirmed yet. Oh yea, hope you do not like to press the Enter key when you are finished. That key resets the form so you have to start over.
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| # ¿ May 12, 2008 14:22 |
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The start menu search was the 'killer feature' for Vista for me. I would rather just type serv or event to access services or the event viewer. Its just quicker that way.
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| # ¿ May 13, 2008 13:49 |
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PowerLlama posted:The color is nowhere in there that I could find. It says the Active border color is a gray color. I swear that you can change the setting for that stupid boarder in Vista. I believe I just made mine thinner, but you can set the width to zero to get rid of it. My Vista machine is at home, so I cannot check. I think I just did a google search for how to manipulate the boarder.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 13:11 |
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PowerLlama posted:I don't care where you are, you go home right now, and you figure out how to make that fucker go away. I think its the boarder padding setting in the advanced appearance screen. Default it 4, mine is set at 2, I imagine 0 would get rid of it. I connected through RDP though, so I had none of the Aero effects active, I could be wrong about this one.
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| # ¿ May 14, 2008 16:26 |
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Xenomorph posted:All the motherboards I've seen still have DOS based upgrading. On my Gigabyte board, I was able to update the BIOS without ever leaving windows. Course I needed to reboot after the update. Worked without a hitch. I was pretty impressed, my first BIOS update without having to deal with bootdisks.
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| # ¿ Jun 10, 2008 14:56 |
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timb posted:Tell me about it. A few years ago a client wanted a logo and website designed for his new product; he had a very specific idea in mind and no matter how much I or my designer tried to steer him away from it, he was steadfast. Logo work seems to be absolutely hilarious. Somehow, a new logo for part of my company was approved by the president. The logo is a stick figure house with two pieces of clipart inside it. The house is not even straight, one side of the roof is longer than the other. I could have whipped that logo up in 5 minutes. We paid $800. This poo poo was approved by at least 3 people in management positions.
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2008 12:44 |
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I think you need to go into the email account settings to have it check email automatically. I do not think that secondary email addresses do this by default. I get spam that shows up in the alert too. Wish they would fix that.
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| # ¿ Jun 19, 2008 20:51 |
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Mantrid posted:My parents put a cooling fan in their computer that glows blue. Why? Because the ridiculous fan cost less than the normal fan. This has gone too far. Ive got an external HDD. It has bigass pink and blue lights on it, which is really stupid. Why did I buy it? It was $20 cheaper than a regular external drive of the same brand and capacity.
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| # ¿ Jun 25, 2008 12:55 |
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revmoo posted:Yeah I found some registry hack that claimed to prevent focus stealing, but it didn't change a goddamn thing. There is an option in tweakui that makes the taskbar flash a few times when an app wants focus. Some apps do ignore this (gently caress you Citrix), but it works for the most part.
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| # ¿ Jul 2, 2008 16:16 |
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brc64 posted:Oh god, that reminds me of another... Now that would be great. I do not need that stupid extended section at all.
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| # ¿ Jul 10, 2008 15:02 |
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Xenomorph posted:Installing IE7 suddenly made the Language Toolbar thing activate on every system I've seen. Ill second this request. The language bar annoys me so much. Not sure if any of my users care about it, but I know that I hate it.
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| # ¿ Aug 14, 2008 14:02 |
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Ive got a similar problem. We are stuck with Mekorma MICR ink and they only work with HPs. Yet the drivers for the recommended HP, a 4250, are complete garbage. Non-stop print spooler errors. We are getting a newer 3005 (we are still stuck with HP) so hopefully that one is better, but I doubt it.
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| # ¿ Aug 26, 2008 13:06 |
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Rock Tumbler posted:heh good one Yep. Thats what HP would like you to believe. HP has a nice PDF with a list of all of their printers and whether they are terminal service/Citrix compatible. I can tell you right now, that list is full of poo poo.
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| # ¿ Aug 26, 2008 14:40 |
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Around here, "we" refer to Acrobat Professional as simply "Adobe". "I was working in Adobe, and I cannot figure out how to change this field".
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| # ¿ Aug 29, 2008 18:56 |
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If we are getting into IE things, I hate it that when I open IE and start typing into the address bar, it will suddenly take control, erase everything I have typed and put in whatever address has just loaded (my homepage).
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| # ¿ Oct 22, 2008 17:26 |
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UraniumAnchor posted:Most recently? The Sands of Time trilogy with a USB gamepad (only way to play it). Gamepad alone doesn't keep the screensaver from kicking in OR the monitor from turning off. And I have the monitor set at 20 minutes. Nor does a racing wheel. I have had my monitor shut off in the middle of a 30 minute race.
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| # ¿ Oct 24, 2008 13:31 |
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brc64 posted:And yes, I do also think about the huge loving mess that would be left behind if he did die. I would probably just walk out at that point. If my boss were to quit, I would be next in line for that position. I have no problem admitting that I would turn in my 2 weeks notice the second he quits. I work in the same office as him, Ive seen the poo poo he has to put up with.
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| # ¿ Oct 28, 2008 16:12 |
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It is annoying how steam will switch you from your games list over to their advertising/home page after you stop playing a game.
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| # ¿ Nov 20, 2008 20:42 |
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mono posted:I'm pretty sure it was mentioned already but my number one most common aggravation is the way Internet Explorer handles address bar focus. Sometimes it sends you right to it. Most of the time it goes off and on when you first open IE and you just want to type "google.com" because you're in an RDP session over a slow 128k connection and OH GOD MSN.COM IS LOADING gently caress FUCKF FUFKCUCKUFKCARGHHHHHHH *escape key x 50* *frantically clicking on stop* This gets me every time I have to use IE. If it were not for loving websites that only work in IE, I would never have to touch that piece of poo poo.
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| # ¿ Nov 24, 2008 19:45 |
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Midelne posted:I see a lot of help desk positions posted in this area that require five years of experience and an MCSA minimum. Same here. Im desperately trying to get out of helpdesk, but there is not much available without 5 years experience + 10 years Windows Vista experience.
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| # ¿ Dec 8, 2008 18:21 |
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Spazz posted:Edit: Also, 10 years experience with Vista? It was just an example of ridiculous requirements Ive come across. I have never actually seen that requirement, but I have seen experience requirements for technologies that are brand new. How do I get 5 years experience for something that is a year old!?
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| # ¿ Dec 8, 2008 18:38 |
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10 years to do deskside at all? 
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Spazz posted:I have a feeling it's whoever wrote the requirements, which may be someone in HR. I interviewed with an HR rep first at one place and she was asking some IT related questions while reading over my resume, one of them was "Tell me about your experience with... Lyenuckz?" I had to bite my tongue not to laugh. It wasn't even for a Linux position, it was for a Level 1 computer janitor job at a small company. Not arguing with you, I agree completely. Its just "poo poo that Pisses me(you) off".
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| # ¿ Dec 8, 2008 18:58 |
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Karanth posted:While this is the logical explanation, it's far more fun to let users believe in you as a minor technical deity. They're generally nicer to you in the future. Nearly everyone in my office complains about the "magic touch". One of the women that works on our database servers called it her "aura".
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| # ¿ Dec 17, 2008 21:42 |
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Javid posted:Utterly unresizable windows. I use an app that cannot be resized, and if you use something like resizeenable it just breaks. There's plenty of h/v shrink and grow room, so there's no design reason it CAN'T be shrank but it's hardlocked at 1024x768 - meaning a brand-new EEE can't usably run it. Wee. Microsoft Dynamics is almost worse. Sure, you can resize some of the windows, but the content of the window does not scale, it just stays at the same size.
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| # ¿ Jan 13, 2009 14:17 |
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Toady posted:Having to use Windows and OS X every day, my biggest annoyance is still having applications modify focus in some way, be it bringing a window forward or even removing the text cursor from a field I'm typing in on a web page. Browsers love to do that if you start typing while a page is loading. IE loves to do this. When I open IE, I probably want to go to a website, but NO! I am going to start typing, then the homepage is going to load because IE is slow, and its going to remove my focus from the address bar and blank out whatever I was typing. Opera does not steal focus. Not sure if Opera is worth a drat on OSX, but on Windows its excellent, and in my opinion, the best.
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| # ¿ Jan 15, 2009 14:07 |
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Lum posted:change the sortcut to iexplore.exe -nohome Good trick, but I still find its much better to just simply not use IE unless I 100% have to, like the loving Microsoft Dynamics customersource site.
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| # ¿ Jan 15, 2009 15:47 |
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Nothing daily here, but it sure as hell is pissing me off... The company I work for has allowed us to perform a huge infrastructure upgrade, we are consolidating down to 3 badass servers running VMs. To help everything go smoothly and to make management happy, we hired consultants to perform the upgrade. Yet now, every time a new part of the system goes live, these consultants have totally hosed up everything, leaving us with a non-functioning environment. First, we got Exchange 2007 going. The consultant copied half of our mailboxes and made the drat thing live. No testing whatsoever. We had no incoming or outgoing email for 6 hours that day. You would figure they would have made a few test mailboxes and gotten things running side by side properly before going live, but NO! They just threw us into the fire and let us deal with 6 hours of downtime. Next, they get the new file server up and running. They redirect all of our profiles and change the paths in our login scripts to the new paths. But ooops, they have 3 week old data on the new file server. Of course, they made the new files server live over the weekend, and I show up this morning with complaints of missing files and people being unable to log in. Once again, its about 6 hours later and I have gotten everyone back on our old file server with everyones correct up-to-date files. I am so glad they decided to not make our new Citrix farm live this weekend. Just a little planning and testing would have taken care of these problems before ever going live. What the poo poo kind of consultants am I working with here? My colleage and I would have done a much more methodical and correct procedure for this migration, but we thought we were making a good call by calling in the "professionals". Dyscrasia fucked around with this message at Jan 19, 2009 around 19:19 |
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Rock Tumbler posted:Unless I'm mistaken, the driver package for each printer is exactly the same and contains drivers for every single HP printer in existence. I believe you are mistaken. They just load them with a ton of crap java applications, such as image editors, something that polls your printer every second causing constant slowdown because of CPU usage... You know, the good stuff.
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| # ¿ Jan 21, 2009 20:27 |
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boo_radley posted:
 REMEMBER!!! ONLY USE HP BRAND INK CARTRIDGES AND TONER IN YOUR HP BRAND PRINTER!!!
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| # ¿ Jan 21, 2009 21:53 |
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But I have half a container; I put that one in two weeks ago.
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Midelne posted:
The best part about Brother is that they have ONE generic PCL5e driver that works for every Brother printer I have thrown at it. For Citrix, this is amazing. One driver on the server, and everyone can pick up whatever Brother printer fits thier needs. Plus, its nice and stable unlike the HP generic driver.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2009 14:01 |
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Karanth posted:Among my favorite signs and memos at my last job were one done by one of our artists for the restroom commanding people to flush, and an internal memo on everyone's desk one morning stating that regular bathing was in fact mandatory. Only one we had here was in an email from an out of state office stating that the sign in board (Mark whether you are in the building or not) was not to be used for derogetory comments. I would really like to know what some of those comments were.
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| # ¿ Jan 22, 2009 19:57 |
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I always go with a seperate OS partition. Shuffling my files around when I reformat is the worst part of the job. I do have backups, but why bother waiting for gigs of data to copy when it can just sit on its own partition and be unaffected?
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2009 17:36 |
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sm8000 posted:It is not too much annoyance to point My Documents to a D: partition. Which is exactly what I do. And of course I can point Opera to a specific "downloads" folder on any drive as well. It takes a few minutes to redirect My Documents etc... But it can take hours to transfer all of my data to backup and then back again to the clean install.
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| # ¿ Jan 28, 2009 20:12 |
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devmd01 posted:Write a book. Please. At the very least, it will make the rest of us in IT realize that we don't have it quite as bad as you do! Its not even that Midelne has one or two bad ones to share like most of us, its just an endless river.
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| # ¿ Feb 3, 2009 20:52 |
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agonytuesday posted:I grew up on PCs, but I am a Graphic Design major in college, so naturally I have to learn to use macs because they are "better for graphic design programs" (IE photoshop, illustrator and indesign). I have to bring my own mouse to class to replace the Easy Button With A Cord that comes standard on school macs, but the thing that pisses me off the most is the fact that I go to submit a file that I made on a PC in the same format that macs take, and it is completely different on a mac because of anything from different color standards to file readability and fonts. Total hype. Perhaps years ago Photoshop may have been slightly faster, but not today. I have done audio and image editing on both Mac and PC. I would use the PC over the Mac in both cases, but thats because I am used to PCs. The only reason the Mac would have been better in my case is that it had better system specs, so for large projects the Mac was better, but this had nothing to do with Mac vs PC, the Mac was much newer than the PC so obviously it had better hardware. In other words, its all personal preference.
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| # ¿ Feb 4, 2009 17:30 |
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brc64 posted:So his method of restricting Internet access amounts to removing the Internet Explorer icon? Am I reading that right? If they are anything like the maintenance guys I work with, this is plenty to bring things to a complete halt. I make an icon on the desktop for getting to our Citrix web interface. If that icon is not there, "The internet is gone!!!!"
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| # ¿ Apr 1, 2009 19:38 |
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royallthefourth posted:Oh, you wanted to remove the language bar? Sure, it's gone. Reboot, it's back. Has anyone figured out how to make a GPO to get rid of the language bar? I tried to make one that changed the registry entries that control it, but they did not work.
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| # ¿ Apr 28, 2009 16:40 |
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sanchez posted:Install WSUS, do your updates on a certain day (3rd monday or whatever) of every month. People will know to shut down on that one day only, problem solved. Good luck getting people to do something once a month, even with a monthly email notification. WSUS is great though.
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